ATLAS19dzi (AT2019bwb): discovery of a candidate SN in ESO 264- G 041 (88 Mpc)
ATel #12591; K. W. Smith, O. McBrien, S. J. Smartt, A. McCormack (Queen's University Belfast), L. Denneau, H. Flewelling, A. Heinze, J. Tonry, H. Weiland (IfA, University of Hawaii), B. Stalder (LSST) A. Rest (STScI), P. Clark, M. Fulton, D. O'Neill, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota)
on 18 Mar 2019; 03:11 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Ken Smith (k.w.smith@qub.ac.uk)
Subjects: Optical, Supernovae
ATLAS is a twin 0.5m telescope system on Haleakala and Mauna Loa which is robotically surveying the sky above declination -40 with a cadence of 2 days (Tonry et al. 2018, PASP, 13, 064505). Two filters are used, cyan and orange (denoted c and o; all mags quoted are in the AB system). While carrying out the primary mission for Near Earth Objects, we search for and publicly report stationary transients to the IAU Transient Name Server. More information is on http://www.fallingstar.com. We are submitting Astronomer's Telegrams for transients that are either within 100 Mpc, or have some other interesting feature to bring to the community's attention, such as bright nuclear transients, slowly rising or rapidly fading objects.
We report a new transient source, most likely a supernova in the galaxy ESO 264- G 041. We discovered ATLAS19dzi (AT2019bwb) on MJD 58559.42 == 2018-03-17.42, at m_o = 18.29 +/- 0.20. There was no detection by ATLAS on MJD 58555.46 == 2019-03-13.46. ATLAS19dzi is offset by 3.60 arcsec south, 9.10 arcsec east from ESO 264- G 041, which is at z = 0.020 or d = 88.3 Mpc (from NED), implying an absolute magnitude of M = -16.64 (assuming m-M = 34.54 and A_r = 0.447 and A_i = 0.332). A summary of the transient's properties is listed below. Followup observations are encouraged.
Name | ATLAS Name | RA (J2000) | Dec (J2000) | Disc. MJD | Disc Mag | Offset from host
AT2019bwb | ATLAS19dzi | 10:48:26.31 | -45:41:32.5 | 58559.42 | 18.29 o | 9.83 arcsec
This work has made use of data from the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) project. ATLAS is primarily funded to search for near earth asteroids through NASA grants NN12AR55G, 80NSSC18K0284, and 80NSSC18K1575; byproducts of the NEO search include images and catalogs from the survey area. The ATLAS science products have been made possible through the contributions of the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, the Queen's University Belfast, and the Space Telescope Science Institute.
